Heart of Europe: A History of the Holy Roman Empire - Peter H. Wilson Audiobook
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The Holy Roman Empire lasted a thousand years, far longer than ancient Rome. Yet this formidable dominion never inspired the awe of its predecessor. Voltaire distilled the disdain of generations when he quipped it was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire. Yet as Peter Wilson shows, the Holy Roman Empire tells a millennial story of Europe better than the histories of individual nation-states. And its legacy can be seen today in debates over the nature of the European Union.
Heart of Europe traces the Empire from its origins within Charlemagne’s kingdom in 800 to its demise in 1806. By the mid-tenth century its core rested in the German kingdom, and ultimately its territory stretched from France and Denmark to Italy and Poland. Yet the Empire remained stubbornly abstract, with no fixed capital and no common language or culture. The source of its continuity and legitimacy was the ideal of a unified Christian civilization, but this did not prevent emperors from clashing with the pope over supremacy―the nadir being the sack of Rome in 1527 that killed 147 Vatican soldiers.
Though the title of Holy Roman Emperor retained prestige, rising states such as Austria and Prussia wielded power in a way the Empire could not. While it gradually lost the flexibility to cope with political, economic, and social changes, the Empire was far from being in crisis until the onslaught of the French revolutionary wars, when a crushing defeat by Napoleon at Austerlitz compelled Francis II to dissolve his realm.
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This post has 7 comments with rating of 5/5
April 17th, 2021
This is awesome! Thank you!
April 17th, 2021
Thankyou for this!!
April 17th, 2021
More or less what modern day Germany and to a lesser extent France are doing with the so-called “European Union.”
April 17th, 2021
“Far longer than ancient rome” ? BS … but ok.
March 26th, 2022
“Religiously divided mostly German loose confederation of states” doesn’t quite roll off the tongue, does it?
February 8th, 2023
Dear friends,
could somebody please seed? I’m stuck on 10% since over a week and I would really like to get this! If anyone has other books by Wilson like Iron and Blood or Europe’s Tragedy, or Geoffrey Parkers Global Crisis and History of Warfare, I would greatly appreciate it.
December 11th, 2023
The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor an empire.
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